Tell Us Your
Health Care
Horror Story?
[robgandara]
"I lost my health care when my job
was shipped to Singpore."
"I wish we had a Canadian or
British health system!"
"I have thousands of dollars of dental expenses
and I am trying to start a company and I
have to decide if I want to invest in inventory
or my teeth?"
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[jlsutherland]
"My cousin is a nurse in Ottawa, Canada's capital.
She reported to us this past May that the wait
for an MRI is 1 year. She said the hospitals are
over-crowded. One of her friends,
a fiftysomething year old women fell and broke her
hip. She was left waiting on a gurney in the
emergency room for three days because there
was no space to admit her."
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[Kathy]
"I had spinal surgery, no Physical Therapy.
This was a Workmen Comp. Insurance Injury.
Now I'm in Worst Pain Now Than Before.
No Insurance!"
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[jlsutherland]
"My cousin Rose in Scotland is missing a few
of her teeth. She doesn't wear her plate because
it is very uncomfortable and ill-fitting, and
her rationed health services will not permit
her to get another one for years!"
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[Linda Lynch]
"I know people who have died because they lost
their health insurance when the company they
worked for closed in the midst of their chemo
treatment. I know people who have worked all
their lives and when they were laid off were unable
to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
The one issue I cared the most about in this past
election was health care. Since some people have
chosen to fight for the insurance companies profits
instead of the health of the citizens, I have decided I am no
longer an affiliate of my former party. The distortions
and lies used to fight against health care reform has
made me ashamed of my previous party affiliation."
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[johanneslawrora]
"The Federal Republic of Germany has the best
Health Care System in the World. There are also
no foreclosure of private property in Germany,
Poland, or other European Union countries,
except England.
I have had multiple health problems since early
childhood and everything was always taken care
of in the United States of America; that is until
th politicians got involved.
Health care for all should be our top priority, but the
politicians, most of Congress, and the
Administration in Washington, want to dole it out
to the wealthy only, and to the rest of the people
is deprivation of health care, which then becomes
akin to Euthanasia, a type of death sentence that
takes a little longer.
When those Congressmen that backed the President
with his type of health plan, it actually skirted an
act of Treason; because our Bill of Rights and the
Original Constitution states that Americans are
granted life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
President Carter interfered with out health plan system,
by having millions of nurses and aides fired, so that
hospitals would be operating with a minimal staff -
viz - 1 Registered Nurse for five floors of patients.
Therefore there were no aides and no practical nurses.
When did the President and others have the right to
decide for us 'what health care, if any, could we
receive.
This Sir is anti-American, pro-left, and if permitted
to become the law of the land, would therefore be
akin to Euthanasia. And that Sir would be Treason...
Nazi Germany practiced it and so did Lenin and
Stalin. Nazi Germany paid for their misdeeds - but Soviet
Russia was exalted for what Germany was charged
with. What the 'Hell' is going on here.
Explain that to me!"
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eschminke
In January of 2007 I travelled to Northern Ireland to
study abroad for five months. Four weeks before I
was supposed to go home, my throat started to hurt
a little bit. A week later it had not gone away,
but proceeded to get worse. So I went to a doctor.
Upon arriving at the clinic, I offered to show the
receptionist my student health insurance and my
passport, etc., but she wasn't interested. She just
said, "Sit down and the doctor will see you shortly".
I was promptly seen, doctor looked down my throat---
which by this time, white spots were appearing on my
tonsils---but he did no tests, he just said "Take some
tylenol for the pain and it should go away on its
own." Dutifully I left, and followed his
instructions.
A few days later my symptoms had escalated:
eating, drinking and swallowing was becoming
increasingly difficult and painful. I wanted a
second opinion so I went to the other clinic that was
in town. Same thing. No insurance needed, seated
inspected, "Looks like you're on the down side of it.
Take some tylenol and it will go away on its own".
Then a whole week passes, and I still felt awful.
I went back to the last doctor and said, "Look, this
needs to get tested or something, because I can
hardly eat, and I don't want to pass it on to anyone
else!" At this point, he simply prescribed me with
some antibiotics and I started taking them right
away. (Though they didn't seem to help, as you
will see.)
Then a whole week passes, and I still felt awful. I went
back to the last doctor and said, "Look, this needs to
get tested or something, because I can hardly eat, and
I don't want to pass it on to anyone else!" At this point,
he simply prescribed me with some antibiotics and I
started them right away. (Though they didn't seem to help,
as you will see.)
The next week my parents had joined me in ireland
to do a little sight-seeing of their own. A few days
after their arrival my symptoms had finally come to
an ugly climax. I couldn't sleep at night because of
the persistent pain in my throat. Now it hurt whether
I swallowed or not. Couldn't eat at meal times with
my parents, except for soft mushy things.
(Luckily in (N) Ireland there's plenty of mashed
potatoes!) My tonsils looked like raw hamburger,
and at the FINAL day of it, I was running a fever,
and could barely keep my eyes open. Time to go
to the emergency room.
The doctor here took one look at my throat and
said, "You have bacterial tonsillitis," and prescribed me a
vicodin-like painkiller, and anti-inflammatory, and
a really strong antibiotic. Of course, in this state
I was in no condtion to take pills, so all of this had to be
in liquid form. I took all of this medicine as soon as I
could, and---honest---to---God---relief came FIFTEEN
minutes later.
What pisses me off about this whole experience, is
that if the doctor had just done his job the
FIRST time I saw him, and prescribed some antibiotics,
it would have nipped it in the bud right away, and
saved me three weeks of agon over not being able
to eat, drink, or swallow! (And when you're in
(N) Ireland drinking is practically a
REQUIREMENT!). The British health-care system
SUCKS!!! This is NOT the answer for America!
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TWMK
I don't know where you're getting your stats, but
according to the World Health Organization we
Americans certainly don't have the best health
care in the world.
On life expectancy alone, people in Japan, Israel, Mexico,
Canada... and many many others can expect to
outlive Americans with "the best healthcare".
And on Infant Mortality... we're behind nearly 38
countries.... like Croatia. Tell me a horror story
from the mother wouldn't have lost their new baby
if they had given birth in Croatia. I mean honestly.
We need better health coverage, we need reform,
we need health insurers to compete to keep us
healthy not to make their CEO'S richer. We
should support our representatives into making
this happen.
And you should stop the lying and the
fear mongering.... It really isn't helpful.
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